I have been quite busy the last few week. Finally, I got around to design a pattern for the outer circle of my Picasso’s Coat. For the outer circle I had several goals:

Change knitting direction, to change striping

Use a pattern related to Picasso,

Able to knit as a circle,

Connect the circle while knitting it.

To find a suitable pattern it took me some time. Picasso use a lot of harlequins in his drawings. While a harlequin is comical, he is also sometimes sad an lonely. So Picasso felt a Harlequin represents the essence of life. That was my inspiration to use a lace diamond pattern. I used short rows to curve the pattern. Each diamond is larger towards the outside.